Part 1Adoption
Chapter 7Miscellaneous
Restrictions on arranging adoptions and placing for adoption
76Adoption societies which are not registered adoption services
(1)
Subsection (2) applies where—
(a)
an adoption society is—
(i)
a registered adoption society, or
(ii)
registered as respects Northern Ireland under Part III of the Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/431), and
(b)
the society is not a registered adoption service.
(2)
Except to the extent that the society considers it necessary to do so in the interests of a person mentioned in section 3(1) of F1the 2002 Act or, as the case may be, Article 3 of the Northern Ireland Order, it must not act as an adoption society in Scotland.